A particularly dystopic passage from Super Sad True Love Story that I have found interesting is pages 89-90.  In this scene, Lenny is being taught by Noah and Vishnu in a bar how to use all of the new features on this apparat.  The new features use the plethora of information on each person’s profile to determine various rankings.  Everyone is so absorbed by these ratings, and they have such a strong influence over people’s actions and behavior to the point where books have become “artifacts.”

This image is from The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.  In this novel, the society is infected with this disease that makes men’s thoughts able to be heard by everyone at all times.  This never-ending stream of thoughts called “Noise” is similar to the continuous flow of information and data found in Super Sad True Love Story.  Everyone has access to all of the little details and secrets about everyone else.  There is no hiding in either of these societies.  In both of these situations, the disease and the technology cause the population to be in a daze, and control their lives.  These limitations dehumanize the population and strip away their lives to that of a monotone nature.